Can Uber-style buses help relieve India’s air pollution?
India’s megacities have some the deadliest air and worst traffic congestion in the world.
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How nations are chipping away at their protected lands
Winning protected status for key natural areas and habitat has long been seen as the gold standard of conservation.
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Ninety-nine percent of the planet's freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps.
How rising CO2 levels may contribute to die-off of bees
As they investigate the factors behind the decline of bee populations, scientists are now eyeing a new culprit ...
Saving Amphibians: The quest to protect threatened species
The decline of the world’s amphibians continues, with causes ranging from fungal diseases to warmer and drier climates.
As drought grips South Africa, a conflict over water and coal
Facing one of the worst droughts in memory, South Africa’s leaders have doubled down on their support of the water-intensive coal industry.
After Paris, a move to rein in emissions by ships and planes
As the world moves to slash CO2 emissions, the shipping and aviation sectors have managed to remain on the sidelines.
The case for more ethanol: Why green critics are wrong
The criticism of ethanol by environmentalists is misguided and just plain wrong.
Hard-pressed rust belt cities go green to aid urban revival
Gary, Indiana is joining Detroit and other fading U.S. industrial centers in an effort to turn abandoned neighborhoods and factory sites into gardens, parks, and forests.
At 1,066 feet above rainforest, a view of the changing Amazon
A steel structure in the Amazon, taller than the Eiffel Tower, will soon begin monitoring the atmosphere above the world’s largest tropical forest,
